This is a Service

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1:25Ryan Holiday: This is a service. Maybe you don't think it's making much of a difference. Maybe it's terrifying and exhausting. Maybe it's costing you a lot, friends and followers, and peace of mind. Maybe the odds against you are overwhelming. Still, it is worth doing. Cato didn't succeed against Caesar. Thrasia was beaten by Nero. Stockdale was repeatedly tortured for his resistance. But do you know what their example did? It inspired not only those around them, but has inspired generations to come. As we said recently, courage is a team sport. People are more likely to stand up, to say this is wrong, to join the cause, if they see other people doing it.

2:10Ryan Holiday: So by putting yourself out there, by speaking your mind, by living a virtuous life in an unvirtuous world, you are doing an incredible service. You are saying all is not lost. You are saying to those who are seeing the same things, you are not alone. You are saying to the powers that be, those who take complicity and cowardice for granted, there are more of us than you think. Courage is contagious. Its effects linger too, sustaining people far away, people not even yet born as Cato and the Stoic opposition remind us. So let's do our job. Let's play our part. If courage is a service, then if it's a team sport, then we should learn from the people who showed us how.

2:52Ryan Holiday: That's what Courage is Calling is all about. It's a book celebrating and dissecting great examples of courage. So we can pick up some of it, right? So we can study it. We can learn from it, we can apply it to our own lives, and then we can play our own part and provide our own little bit of the service. It's the first book in the Stoic Virtue series. You can check out all four Courage is Calling, Discipline is Destiny, Right Thing, Right Now. Also has some great examples of courage, I must say. And then Wisdom Takes Work. Now, I think the whole series is coming out as a box set here. I'll link to that as well.

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